What is your criteria for buying homes with a wood frame build in Florida?  I know a lot of investors who say to steer clear and to only really look at block properties (primarily because of termites), but I've seen a...

Fellow Investors: After six (6) years of renting out properties, I still haven't yet figured out the best way to mitigate those tenants who fail to keep an eye out for the occasional leaky toilet flapper for which som...

Are the majority of tenants from Indy staying in a property for 12 to 18 months, destroying the property and then moving to the next remodeled property? Or is it just my luck? One of my tenants left on December 31, af...

We have a renter in Colorado that has turned our four bedroom home into a four bedroom grow house. We need legal advice from an experienced attorney who has experience with this probkem.  Any advice would be appreciat...

Welcome to my weekly article, which I dub 'A Skeptical Dude’s Take on Real Estate,' coming at you live from Nashville, TN. Every week I write a brief, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets,...

I'd like some advice on the wisdom of using $100k of my 401k money to buy a retirement home in Costa Rica.The facts:  I'm 57 years old and live in Hermosa Beach, where I rent an apartment.  The houses here are $2 mill...

Since Socialism is the hot topic of the day, I would like to ask folks an honest question.

If you are a conservative, how are you able to support a war in Iraq with such a large price tag, yet be so against helping o...

So there is an apartment building with about 25 units in it. I know the owner, she actually watched me grow up. She is getting too old to keep the building. So I presented to my significant other to possibly buy the ...

Hoping to tap into the vast experience of BP to get some real world knowledge. In my very limited research into MHP, specifically screening parks to make offers on, I keep hearing a number of successful park owners (J...

This house was finished quite a while ago, and I meant to post a topic on this, but I completely forgot until I started going through some old photo's on the SD card.

Background of the House: 14 years old, original ...